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All the gear was piled into the rental car and we drove south to Wanaka. In town we repaired my boot and ate some amazing burgers. Some wet weather paid us a visit and we had a down day/rest day….
A sunset view of moon cloud and mountain from the Kelman hut. The weather reports were forecasting a turn for the worse, but mostly we were running out of food! We decided to ski one more large line in the…
We decided to go big and go for this cool line on Mount Hamilton that we had seen from across the valley while on Ellie. The line runs off the summit to the left, down the ridge to the cool…
Ok, so I lied. I said this was going to be a 4 part series on NZ, but when I looked closer The Kelman Hut and everything we skied there, it would just be way too long for one post….
We tried to sleep, but the corner room we had chosen was perfectly positioned into the wind so that it created a sweet whistling sound all night. We were all still so high from the skiing that we didn’t care….
It’s been over a year since Beau Fredlund, Adam Fabrikant and Billy Haas and I went on a complete skiing rampage in New Zealand. Beau and I did a series of brief trip reports for Wildsnow.com, but I wanted to…
Low altitude peaks, a vast hut systems, clean water, no foreign language barrier, and a strong U.S. dollar all make NZ a no brainer. Especially for steep technical terrain! A propensity for bad weather, icy slopes and the cost of…
I know, stop living in the past, enough of the PW crap. But, when good friend Drew Tabke asked if he could do an interview Jonah and I couldn’t say no. For a good hour we got all sentimental and…
After a bout of getting fat and being lazy, and a minor injury, (and lamenting foiled spring ski trips) I’ve been slowly getting back into the mountains. Gathering vertical, volume, and dropping some lbs is easy to do with so…
“For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends RAIN on the righteous and the unrighteous.” -Matthew 5:45– I guess all the praying for sunshine that we did was for naught. But we did…